Biography
Leon Preston Robinson, usually credited as simply Leon, is an American actor and singer, who began professional acting as a film actor in the early 1980s. He is best known for his roles as J.T. Matthews in the 1991 Robert Townsend film The Five Heartbeats, Derice Bannock in the 1993 film Cool Runnings, Shep in the 1994 basketball drama film Above the Rim, singer David Ruffin in the 1998 NBC miniseries The Temptations, and Little Richard in the 2000 film Little Richard.
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Filmography37 titles
First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story
From This Day Forward
40 and Single
I Really Hate My Ex
The Temptations
Oz
The Chi
Madame X
City on a Hill
The Five Heartbeats
Crossing Jordan
Above the Rim
L.A. Law
Hunter
Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas
Cool Runnings
Where Children Play
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Side Streets
The Women of Brewster Place
Swarm
The Glorias
Cliffhanger
Colors
Recovery Road
Buffalo Soldiers
Waiting to Exhale
Band of the Hand
All the Right Moves
A Day to Die
Her Only Choice
And Then There Was You
B*A*P*S
Streetwalkin'
The Price of Kissing
Bats
Diary of a Single Mom